now in the foods in the yogic culture we classify foods into three categories
these are called set - a tonnage and Rajas this can be put it this way pranic
food positive pranic food negative chronic food and zero pranic food
positive prana means it adds a certain pranic energy to the system when you
consume negative prana takes over energy from the system zero neither adds not
takes away it's eaten for taste and lethargy you have people like lethargy
you don't know yes a whole lot of people are telling me we enjoy sleep nobody can
enjoy sleep if you are enjoying sleep you're not sleeping you may enjoy
restfulness you may enjoy the aftereffect of good
sleep that's different you enjoy restfulness you cannot enjoy sleep you
fix this in your head yes or no restfulness must must for a human being
because the rest is the basis of all activity if there is no restfulness in
you you are not capable of dynamic activity yes or no if you're not rested
can you be active no rest is the basis of all activity rest is one thing sleep
is another thing you must differentiate between the two sleep is a certain
inertia the difference between life and death is just this life is a dynamic
process of the energy death is an inertia state of the energy sleep is
playing between the two the more you practice that unknowingly you are
inviting death if you slept for eight hours a day you are inviting death
twenty years earlier or thirty years earlier than what it should have come
I should know so if you eat positive chronic food
energy will reverberate in a dynamic way if you eat negative chronic food it
takes away energy and causes certain deviations in energy if you eat zero
pranic it brings lethargy and maybe you can eat it for taste to some extent we
look at this classification what are the foods which fall under this there's no
need to look at the positive because a whole lot of them more positive I can't
produce a list we look at the negative chronic list it's a much shorter list
list but unfortunately it may be a list of all your favorite things too and top
of the negative chronic list is garlic
garlic is a very powerful medicine but it's one thing to consume something as a
medicine and it's an entirely different thing to consume it as a daily food
substance it has many many medicinal qualities in Ayurveda and Siddha we use
garlic in a very powerful way for specific ailments but now your logic is
every day if I pop whatever medicine I can I will be healthy in I rather we say
like this every root every leaf found on this planet has some medicinal quality
it's just that only a few we have learned how to use others we are yet to
learn how to use otherwise every one of them has some medicinal quality if we
are willing to pay attention and learn how to use them so now if you want to be
healthy what you do is anyway it's fall time there's a lot of leaf just go and
eat as much leaf as possible and also take up a few roots and eat it you will
be very healthy that's not how it works something specific for a specific
problem is different just generally consuming medicinal substances is a
different game isn't it garlic is a very powerful medicine if properly used daily
consumption no no because it plays on your nervous system big time
it is a very strong nervous stimulant if you use garlic your nervous - nervous
system gets stimulated in a big way anything that stimulates now a system
holds you up for some time and then dumps you daily usage of nervous
stimulants in any form will slowly get you to a place that you become
insensitive to life that you cannot experience now you're holding dog is the
ideal because he's more sensitive than you his nervous system is far more
sensitive than you because he can feel things and know things that you cannot
know this is a higher design than the dog isn't it so shall I continue the
list or just I don't want to become unpopular here garlic onion and
supported green chillies Oh as a foodie there maybe you are not used to it it is
something very commonly used in Indian cooking it's a very strong stimulant
should I continue coffee tea
no T means the caffeine t is the T other things are just placebos okay they are
not T you can boil any flour any leave any route and call it t that's not t t
means the T leaf which is caffeine all these are nervous stimulants once in a
way if you drink they have some benefits but if it becomes a daily thing slowly
it dulls your nervous system your ability to experience life is gone we
are looking at this dimension of the food mainly in terms of your sensitive
sensitivity to life largely people are ego sensitive they are not life
sensitive they can't feel life for them only their thought and emotion is life
because they can't feel life if you walk out into the forest you can't feel the
tree that's why you call it a wood you can't feel the creatures around you
simply because the sensitivity is gone in so many ways one thing is just the
modern life this television this traffic this constant reverberations one thing I
find when I come here is one thing that makes me get out of buildings in this
country is always something is buzzing you know something is going it has a
very bad effect in the human system see we are also kind of reverberation there
must be space to allow our every reverberations to grow and spread now
these machines have such powerful reverberation constantly boom something
is going on and on top of it what we cannot hear all these Y files and stuff
they are doing their own thing yes in all this there is no room for you to
become life sensitive to sit here and be able to experience the whole universe
takes a certain level of sensitivity I am talking about nervous stimulants in
that context you are lowering the possibility of experiencing life see for
example if you just touch this not everybody will feel
to touch the same way do you know this it depends on how sensitive your system
is if you feel this you can know many things if you're willing so I'm not a
coffee hater alright but what I am saying is a cup of coffee should not
determine the quality of your life by choice you drink today tomorrow you walk
away it's fine if it's a compulsion if I don't drink my coffee my day is ruined
then you have to do something about it yes I am only talking about this the
only parameter is are you moving towards freedom or are you getting in slaved in
some way with a cup of liquid you shouldn't get enslaved yes with just
about anything you getting tangled up I'm saying do everything by choice then
there's no problem if you do it by choice you know when to start when to
stop isn't it if you do it by compulsion what you start you cannot stop this is
the whole problem it's not like you you become a fanatic I don't need this I
don't need that I eat this I don't need that don't become a food fanatic
it's just that eat by choice every meal must be by choice not that you've
decided this is what you will eat and this is what you will not eat don't make
food into religion it is not it is a choice and the choice should be
according to the needs of the body not according to social needs not according
to cultural needs according to the needs of this body isn't it
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so among the positive planning foods there are a few foods which are very
very positive
on top of the list is what is called as an ash guard I think here they call it a
winter melon it is not of the same potency as we find in India the Indian
ash gourd is like phenomenal Asgard is very positive black pepper is very
positive honey is one substance on the planet whose chemical composition is
very close to that of human blood daily consumption of honey can do wonderful
things to you and honey is an extremely good thing to eat especially if you have
children at home make honey culture part of your thing psychological stability
physical well-being vitality all these things can be greatly enhanced simply
consuming daily honey if you have excess fat in your body if you drink honey with
warm water it breaks down the fat in the system if you drink it with cold water
it will give you weight when we say tamas rajas and that's at work what it
means is those kind of food substances which create lethargy in the system
dullness increases sleep sleep means that you're dead for eight hours a day
or 10 hours a day whatever or one third of your life your enemy dead
Raja's means you are active in the world activity without the necessary awareness
after some time you will get frustrated with activity because suddenly one day
when you stop and look you don't know why you're doing what you're doing
Tomasz means you're conscious it bring consciousness it's not just in food this
is in us we are also recognizing foods which support this that's all it is not
that food will cause these qualities in you you have this quality some should
support that some foods support that that's about it food is not
a deciding factor you can eat garbage and still be a Buddha but why it's
something which doesn't support you and go against it see it is like you bought
a diesel car and you put kerosene in it you buy a petrol car and you put diesel
in it it will still go but it will not function at its optimal so we should see
what kind of food are we designed for if you look at this fundamentally there are
various aspects which will tell you certain stories about what you should
eat now it is not only about human beings it is about the individual human
being right now what is the nature of your quality accordingly you should eat
if you live it your senses your senses know what to eat how much to eat how
much of what to eat but because too much education sense is
gone everything is by information what to eat they will google and see if you
you need initially you said if a farmer can be told about methodological
predictions if fisherman can be told about methodological productions how
things will happen I want you to understand even now the best fisherman
in the world never look at the methodological production predictions
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people off the African coast and Mediterranean coast they put the nose up
in the air and it says in two hours there will be a strong storm we need to
go back ok he never looks at the thing because every other creature knows there
is going to be a storm if you observe the fish they are all behaving you know
when tsunami happened in southern India we were the first people to be there in
less than 24 hours we were there with medical vans and I was personally there
what I noticed was there were lots of dead bodies human dead bodies cattle
which were tied down they had died none of the loose cattle had died even the
donkeys did not die even the fish not a single dead fish on the beach all of
them knew it's coming only human beings did not know it's coming not only that
in under months we have a Air Force Station they have the best
metallurgically stuff they did not know it's coming and the entire Air Force
Base got really washed up why I am telling this to you is because when we
say we are the most evolved life on this planet what it means is we have the most
complex and sophisticated neurological system if we have the most complex and
sophisticated neurological system we must be able to sense more things than
anybody can sense isn't it no no don't clap we are not sensing anything
but now because of a little cerebral activity our thought and emotion has
overtaken us in such a way what you think and feel has become paramount your
psychological drama has bigger has become bigger than the cosmic drama yes
what you are thinking today isn't it more important than what's happening in
the entire cosmos so because of this fallacy because of this misunderstanding
because you're too engrossed in your own psychological drama you can't sense it
otherwise I must tell you this why I was living on a farm in a remote place
outside of myself many years ago I hired one guy who's hearing was very bad
because his hearing is bad he looks like a fool because he doesn't understand
what people say so in the village everybody makes fun of him they call him
names and things and you know treat him badly
so I said you come and live on my farm so he lived on he will simply sit like
this because he can't have conversations if I have to have conversation with him
I have to shout at him he will understand half the sentence so he
simply sits suddenly one day you gets up and starts preparing the plow and the
bullocks I said what are you doing he says no tomorrow we will plow I said Who
there is the rain says no it's going to rain tonight
look at the sky it's all empty sky how is it going to rain today no Swami it
will rain today and it will for sure rain today and tomorrow morning his
truth-loving at 5:30 in the morning and I thought oh this dumb idiot he knows
something that I don't know so I went there and had just liked him squatting
where he used to sit same place and I put my hand out like this like this
trying to feel the moisture temperature smell of the earth this this this I took
eighteen months every day I sat because I was insulted this dumb idiot know
something that I don't know I can't take it
so i sat there felt it watch the leaves watch the insect watch the birds then
today I will tell you if I say there's going to be rain 90% there is going to
be arraigned this is not some magic this is not some yoga this is just
observation that's how see if it's a question of
survival eat garbage and you survive what's the problem if it's about
survival I think largely we passed that situation of how to survive now it's a
question of choice we brought life to everything to a choice almost every
human being can choose and eat there still is a segment of unfortunate
population which cannot choose they have to eat what comes but that's not so in
this country definitely one can choose and eat
so once choice comes what to eat there's a whole dimension of how to know what to
eat and what not to eat if I go into this this an elaborate affair but every
human being can generate the necessary awareness that if food appears you know
what to eat and what not to eat above all what kind of food is your system
designed for that is the kind of food you eat
don't make food into your philosophy or a religion food is about the body it
must go through the system with minimum amount of resistance for example because
the question is about vegetarian or non-vegetarian how we look at the food
is if you eat any food what is happening is the food has to become a part of your
system it has to be integrated to become you if the food that you consume has a
very complex sense of memory and information then our body's ability to
break it and make it a part of our cells is reduced if you eat a simple memory
code or the genetic code in a particular creature let's say you eat a vegetable
it is very simple or in other words in the evolutionary scale
whatever is farthest away from you that's what you must consume or in other
words you never consume a mammal because it is too close to you and it's memory
is too complex and you will never be able to break it down 100% if you
consume this partly you break the breakdown the genetic code another part
of it remains or in other words gradually the animal qualities will
enter your system and unknowingly these things will find expression people are
going through anger stress just simply rage everywhere this is simply because
of the one main reason is the food that they're consuming so whatever is the
simplest memory code that is what you must consume so that easily you can
break it down and make it a part of yourself or whatever is furthest away
from you in the evolutionary scale that's the best thing so in that context
if you must eat non-vegetarian food the fish is the best thing to eat because it
is the first form of life on this planet as it gets more complex as you come
towards mammals is becoming very complex and that's not suitable for human
consumption we can show various parameters in the body the length of the
element we can all how things happen in the system if you look at all this
clearly the body is stating what it wants when it comes to food you should
not ask your doctor a guru or a nutritionist now you must ask your body
you eat something and see how quickly the food moves out of your stomach back
into the intestine if it's happening very quickly within 2 and 1/2 hours if
everything is gone that's good for to eat if it's lingering on between 4 to 6
hours that's not good thing to eat
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